Private investment house Ardian has raised $30bn for its ninth-generation secondaries platform, a significant increase over the $19bn raised for the eighth-generation in 2020, and the largest secondaries fundraise globally to date.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has intensified its crackdown on the use of private messaging apps by the financial industry, targeting a group of alternative investment firms, including several PE managers such as Blackstone, Carlyle, and KKR, for violating recordkeeping rules, according to a report by Investment Executive.
The United States filed a civil lawsuit on Tuesday against private equity firm KKR, accusing it of “repeatedly flouting the premerger antitrust review process” by allegedly circumventing antitrust scrutiny in at least 16 transactions between 2021 and 2022, according to a report by Reuters.
Private equity firm Providence Equity Partners is considering selling CloserStill, a UK-based events company, later this year, as the events sector experiences a surge in dealmaking post-pandemic, according to a report by the Financial Times.
London-based buyout firm Sullivan Street Partners has promoted Oliver Marshall to Partner.
Hildred Capital Management, a private equity firm focused on lower middle-market healthcare, has successfully closed its third fund, Hildred Equity Partners III, according to a report by BusinessWire.
Goldman Sachs Group’s private equity arm is close to finalising a deal to acquire Danish telematics company Trackunit, according to a report by Bloomberg sources familiar with the matter.
Ares Management Corporation has closed its sixth European direct lending fund, Ares Capital Europe VI (ACE VI), securing €17.1bn in commitments and reaching its hard cap, according to a report by BusinessWire.
Apollo has agreed to acquire Argo Infrastructure Partners, a leading mid-market asset manager focused on essential infrastructure assets in North America.
Software maker Databricks has secured over $5bn in financing from lenders such as Blackstone, Apollo Global Management, and Blue Owl Capital, marking its largest debt raise to date, according to Bloomberg citing sources familiar with the matter.
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